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Belt and Road Initiative with new tracks? China's initiative and Japan's response

Seminar — Public seminar with Prof. Werner Pascha University of Duisburg-Essen: Japan´s multilateral infrastructure initiative: (Not only) a reaction to China and Prof. Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen: China's road to a new world order - What is driving the BRI and why?

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Place:
CSS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Øster Farimagsgade 5, Room 7.0.34

Hosted by:
Asian Dynamics Iniatiative and ThinkChina

Cost:
Free

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Public seminar with Werner Pascha, Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST), University of Duisburg-Essen and Jørgen Delman, Professor of China Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is meant to create new connectivities and new infrastructure across the world. The Chinese leadership’s idea is that the Chinese experience in development can be transferred elsewhere and help stimulate economic growth in the countries willing to join the BRI. While the BRI has quickly cascaded across the world embracing investment and construction across the continents, in the air, and on the oceans, there have been concerns in some quarters, not least in many OECD countries, that China’s ambitions are much bigger than expressed publicly. It appears that China is engaged in creating the foundations for a new world order. Countries and organizations like the US, Japan, and the EU are actively contemplating how to tackle the challenge. This seminar will focus on how China has rolled out the initiative and how Japan has reacted. The questions asked: What does China really want? Is it for real? Can China engage the world in its initiative? How will it be governed? What are Japan´s plans? What is hidden behind Japanese concepts like the Partnership for Quality Infrastructure (PQI)?  What will the relationship between Chinese and Japanese approaches be: complementary, cooperative, competitive or even confrontational?

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Speakers and timetable

16:15-16:45: China’s road to a new world order – What is driving the BRI and why?
Professor Jørgen Delman, China Studies, University of Copenhagen

16:45-17:15: Japan´s multilateral infrastructure initiative: (Not only) a reaction to China
Professor Werner Pascha, Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

17:15-17:45: Q&A

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